This year Kazakhstan experienced a harsh winter that resulted in the emergence of an ice cone in the Almaty region there.
According to the report, which was published on the ScienceAlert website on February 10, the height of that ice tower was about 13.7 meters.
The spring water that flows through the glacial plain is its main springs.
Kazakhstan is known to have low temperatures close to freezing temperatures, which in turn leads to the fact that during the winter period the plains remain covered with a thick layer of ice.
Thus, this snowy terrain is a destination for tourists from all over the world.
Glacier volcano
Some scientists in the past referred to the hollow ice cone resulting from being a "glacial volcano", likening it to a rocky volcano.
Although both types have almost the same shape, the glacier volcano differs from the rock volcanoes that spew lava from the ground, where these ice towers are formed in Kazakhstan with the beginning of each new year, and the hot water fountain is the first and main source of ice needed to form a structure Volcano.
The volcano spreads water into the atmosphere, and freezes when it falls again to the surface, and so over time, an amazing hollow ice structure forms that grows with the freezing spray of water.
Similar ice cones can be seen in the United States, and are often seen at Great Lakes such as Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, where water from the lake rushes under the ice sheet, creating piles of ice.
Glacier near Park Kirk on Lake Michigan (John Winkelman - Wikipedia)
In space too
You should know that the phenomenon of ice volcanoes is not limited to planet Earth, but on the contrary, ice volcanoes in space can be more interesting and impressive alike.
In 2016, scientists noticed what they believed to be a huge ice volcano on Pluto, which reached 90 miles in width and 2.15 miles in height, and what we know, maybe this great space ice volcano will be a tourist destination for the inhabitants of the Earth someday.